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I have a script that makes a module of changes I've made to 3.2.2. I determine what files have changed by letting the system quiesce, making my change then running the changes command to find what changed. I then add the names of the changed file to my module script. (ref: http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 776#p27204)

When testing 4.0 I have included mychanges.xzm module in the 4.0 Modules folder. This worked up until the 1203 update. Then booting resulted in the system hanging with a black screen. If I moved my changes module to the Optional folder and booted the system booted fine. And if I then manually Activated mychanges.xzm module they were incorporated into the running system.

After many tweaks to mychanges script I found the lines causing the system to hang when booting were one or more of these:

Ed_P,
Probably completely unrelated, but I had a similar problem with installing my Porteus-Runit build to an Acer laptop. It turned out to be permissions for /home/guest. As I recall, the problem was in permissions for /home/guest/.dconf. I haven't yet tracked down what file is changing permissions. It prevented NetworkManager starting for guest, and also at first, an X session for guest.

In my system I run NetworkManager 1.10.0 since a week ago without complains, Maybe you should search the culprit somewhere else...
Testing 001-core 1203 I found it lacked the header files of readline-7, that supposedly should be in 05-devel (crazy?). Try this change (putting readline headers in 001-core) to see if that was it. By the way I do not know what has Python to do in 001-core (already over 100Mb)

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LABEL GRAPHICAL
MENU LABEL Graphics mode
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus
TEXT HELP
Run Porteus the best way we can.
Try to autoconfigure graphics
card and use the maximum
allowed resolution
ENDTEXT

On first boot it boots up great and create the changes directory in porteus. On 2nd boot up it hangs. So I reboot into text mode and delete changes it the porteus directory. Then I reboot it boot up great. Hope this help and hope you understand it.

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